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The Fusion parts will almost definitely need driver *changes* but I don't think a whole new driver would be required. The important thing is making sure that we have a solid open source driver to start with.

Despite your sarcasm... what's significant here is that the ID is making its way into the driver way before the product releases. So hopefully, the major distros will have support before end-users get their hands on it. This hasn't always happened in the past.

... Of course that would require some sort of weird memory controller...

It is all interesting

Actually I don't quite get how the numbers of pins won't be a serious problem for Fusion. A CPU have ~1000 pins, and a GPU have maybe also ~1000.

I read that CPU's would *never* get more can 16 cores, because the numbers of pins required to the ram banks would not be possible to fit on a die.

That's what gets interesting about Fusion parts -- nearly all of the pins on a GPU are either power/ground or for communicating with CPU and memory. Since the CPU and memory connections are now on chip, other than extra power/ground for the GPU and pins for the video outputs you don't really need a lot more pins when you add a GPU.